layzie

Step right up and get ready for Thursday night meltdown!

Aren't 1, 4 and 5 examples of being unpredictable?

Need to know more, doesn't make sense

Yes my basket weaving classes are booked in 😜

No I genuinely accepted the good compliment. It's nice to have appreciation and thank you because it wasn't easy to undo years of muscle memory. I very much take to task players being called cheats and I don't think it should be a word that we desensitise people to. But when we put people like Mark Robinson in key media positions, what do we expect? Call it playing ignorance or just checking out but I simply couldn't handle any more electric shocks from the AFL. They aren't the boss of me.

All valid and accurate points. But what can we do about it? Really, what can we do? Crud all. Every single week we're on here losing our [censored] about the latest triggering thing that the league is doing or done and frankly I've had a complete gutful of it. Caring deeply and biting at everything like wore me out big time last year and the QF was the final nail in the coffin. After last year I lost all hope and respect for the AFL and it's integrity and released myself from it. There are better and more important things in life to get triggered by and this controlled corrupt sandbox sport is no longer even close to top on my list. Such is my lack of caring about the sport as a whole now I watch 1 possibly 2 games a week and consume next to no football media. I haven't even seen this Maynard incident so I really don't care. I literally take an organisation like the AFL as seriously as WWE now and they have some real talent writing their storylines. I'm tired of it, I'm so far past the point of expecting fairness or justice or even consistency in umpiring. We've made the game fricking impossible to umpire what do you expect? But I need a lecture about caring because I don't give a toss about the minuscule difference between two deliberate out of bounds calls? Parity and consistency does not exist in the current environment and it never will. Not being triggered doesnt make me less of a fan either. I pay my membership money to the Melbourne Football Club, it's an institution that I hope carries on forever and intention wise is 100% to support the club. I'm not an investor or stakeholder or proud partner of the AFL. And I will take the 'good for you' as a compliment because it's taken some work to get here, one thing for sure is it definitely needed to change. The league is a farce, the hip pocket rules, the sport is in trouble, the end.

Who cares

Ironic considering its what we need most.

Not that it was evident last night but a lot of his misses this year have badly shanked to the right and I wonder if the foot issue has really affected this. Last night was probably more about confidence though.

Do we want to win the Telstra tracker or win flags? Yeah being that guy, deal with it 🤪

I heard the streets have no name out near the hangar..

The top 4 itself feels fraudulent with Essendon in it

Managed to get next to the sound desk so I can see the set list. No cigar ☹️

That's enough fooseball tonight, a Pies defeat will do it for me. Off to a Chris Cornell tribute gig now.

Sullivan was watching Logan McDonald videos

What a game of Australian Rules Football

Logan tried to kick the cover off it. Strange as he's got a decent leg

Rivers seemed a bit lax when taking that kick with 30 seconds to go. Slow to get up and of all times to turn your back to goal that wasn't one of them, you need to get it in quick. With the ball having just been in 50 I find it hard to believe we didn't have any tall timber up there ready for it. The kick was obviously going to the top of the square yet Sparrow was the marking target, where was Turner, JVR or even Max? If we're going to delay a kick like that so long then I'd expect to see the usual suspects lurking.

Still not sure why Rivers seemed lax when taking that kick with 30 seconds to go. Slow to get up and of all times to turn your back on the mark that wasn't one of them, times like that you need to get it in quick. With the ball having just been in 50 I find it hard to believe we didn't have any tall timber up there ready. Ball was obviously going to the top of the square yet Sparrow was the marking target, where was Turner, JVR or even Max?

Thought Dirk looked great last night. Hopefully an extended run coming. Tholstrup - Jack Gunston

One of the better debuts you'll see

Put in a hell of a shift. Keep him in. Hopefully a rising star nom in the bank.

Played our hearts out tonight and proud of the performance but it was clear that we ran out of gas. Started the last quarter with Petty and Langdon missing set shots that would have given us some ascendency. When we finally got it in the 50 after several minutes we got pinged for holding the ball and on another rare entry Sparrow blazed away out on the full. These needed to be forward 50 stoppages to conserve some energy but the continued to be played at breakneck speed, it was only a matter of time before the dam wall broke.

6. Pickett 5. Viney 4. Oliver 3. Gawn 2. Van Rooyen 1. Rivers

First impression was that it would have been in any part of the game other than the last minute.